2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors (Merged threads)

Man... there's going to at least be one team that traded players for nothing and were left standing at the alter.

 

The Jazz have always coveted Bogut being that he was a Ute. I see that deal happening. If the Howard deals falls through the Warriors would be smart to still try to trade Bogut to the Jazz for Kanter.

 

Well, we'd have to move the team to Miami, NY or LA.

 

Exactly right. You need to demand a ridiculous price. A team will overachieve, think they just need one more piece to become a championship contender and meet your price.

 

Or we could move the team to London and be the first Euro NBA team.

 

Right now I agree. However, I also think you reject that deal and tell them they need to improve it. GS will realize either a) Dwight wants another elite player in order to come to GS, or b) the Warriors need another high level player to compete with the WC big boys. The Warriors have the issue that their time is now. Ours isn't for a few years.

What we get for Aldridge will define this team for the next 5-10 years. We should demand an extremely high price, or we should just let him walk in two years and take his cap space.

 

I saw this stat on the comments of Dave's article about Lopez and thought it was interesting:

 

If they get Dwight, which is a huge "if" right now, I think they would do a Lee/Thompson/Barnes for Aldridge/Freeland trade. The funny thing is, I think we're still a playoff team.

Lillard/McCollum
Thompson/Matthews
Batum/Barnes
Lee/Robinson
Lopez/Leonard

That team is extremely balanced, young, talented, and deep. We would be back to 2-deep at every position. How scary would that be? I actually really like that deal. I'm wondering if GS was working on a deal with us this whole time to try to strengthen their position with Dwight...

"If we can get Portland to agree to trade Aldridge for Lee/Thompson/Barnes, and we can clear enough space, would you sign with us?"

 

If they would, and Im not sure they would, I think that is about as good as you can get for LMA. That is 3 potential starters and 2-3 potential All-Stars. And I agree that there is no reason we wouldnt make the playoffs and even make some noise. You think people had trouble with the Warriors shooters last year??? This team would be flat out deadly and even when on player is cold there would be 2 to step in and heat things up. However there would be a few things with that trade:

1) Im guessing we would have to trade Batum because I dont think he would like that little of playing time.
2) Im not sure how we could afford to keep that team together more than a few years
3) It would probably stunt Lillard's growth a little.

 

I think Batum needs to be moved regardless. He's like the Great White Buffalo on our team. We keep expecting him to mature into a really good player, and occasionally he gives us a glimpse of all that immense talent, but he can never put together any kind of consistent string of good games. He's been here for five years and we're no closer to him being the player we thought he would be... actually he's a worse defender now than he was as a rookie.

 

For those interested, there is a name there you might recognize

Sam Amico ‏@SamAmicoFSO 25s
Absolutely better. Still have Damian Lillard, right? RT @Mixum: blazers better now or worse after latest moves?

 

How could anyone possibly think we're worse? Oh, that's right, what will we ever do without Nolan Smith and Luke Babbitt?

 

Nate, did you see the name of the tweeter?

RT @Mixum: blazers better now or worse after latest moves?

Wasnt that a poster on here? Or am I mixing up names?

 

"Are the Blazers better or worse after significantly upgrading the overall talent on their team?"

Good question Mix. Good question.

 

That's our mixum!

 

Makes a little more sense knowing that.

 

“@janiscarr: Dwight has made his decision. Said he will announce his destination via Twitter possibly this weekend”

 

Just some (relatively) twitter nobody trying to get followers. Not happening. Dwight isn't that big of an idiot.

 

David Aldridge retweeted it.